[dehrmann]

Why would they pay? It's a 10-year-old game that's the second best selling game of all time. Rockstar made their money, and there isn't anything a competitor could use to gain an advantage. It's almost good because it's free press for GTA VI.

[MikusR]

1. The game still sells 10+ million copies a year.

2. GTA online brings at least half a billion a year in microtransactions.

[vlakreeh]

The vast majority of those sales are for GTA online, which this leak doesn't inherently give you access to. I don't see this leak financially harming Rockstar more than the cost of the presumed ransom, people still have to pay to play GTA online.

[93po]

Give it time and there will be private servers for the modded client

[op00to]

There are already private servers. There are whole communities built up around role playing in bootleg GTA 5 servers.

[tentacleuno]

For context, one of these is FiveM[0], which is very popular (and if anything, a lot better than the official Online in many ways.)

[0]: https://fivem.net/

[breakingcups]

Rockstar bought the developers of the private server software out and integrated them into their teams, presumably for GTA 6.

[dns_snek]

If they cared about their customers they would pay to stop them (us) getting pwned with numerous 0-day vulnerabilities that no doubt exist in a 15 year old code base that had never seen the light of day.

[getwiththeprog]

Free advertising, very well timed indeed.

[serf]

source leaks damage things aside from profitability.

this will just serve as yet another feather in the cap for the exploit/hacking/modding community; and a lot of THOSE people make cash by selling exploits.

If rockstar cared about cheating ( they don't ) this would throw a big monkey wrench into that effort, obfuscation is half the battle in a game where book-keeping like an MMO would be performance prohibitive.